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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to sporadically communicate with Alex during his residency?
(a) Skype.
(b) Email.
(c) Phone calls.
(d) Text messages.

2. When the unnamed narrator rises for his first full day in Marfa, he finds his face covered in what substance?
(a) Makeup.
(b) Paint.
(c) Flour.
(d) Blood.

3. To what location is the unnamed narrator referring when he has the distinguished female author in hysterical laughter over the "masturbatorium" (125)?
(a) The porn theater.
(b) The fertility clinic.
(c) The gay bar.
(d) The library.

4. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?
(a) A few.
(b) Two.
(c) Many.
(d) 12.

5. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Queens.
(d) The Bronx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?

2. When the unnamed narrator and the distinguished female author hit it off at the literary dinner, what dessert do they share?

3. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?

4. The morning of the author's planned blind date with Hannah, he calls which character to ask for company on the day of his medical procedure?

5. Liza is described by the author as having a tendency to "begin an activity" (62) by taking what action?

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